Slate - White women in VA voted for Cuccinelli

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/06/terry_mcauliffe_owes_his_victory_to_women_but_not_to_white_women_who_voted.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

Quite stunned by that, especially since KC was FAR to the right of current governor Bob McDonell....

But a win's a win, though too close for comfort..

[hlthe2b]

1. WTF?... Unfortunately, in life and work, I have all to often found many fellow women to

be the worst enemy of other women... Especially women who believe themselves to be "dependent" on men for everything, whether they truly are or simply allow themselves to be.

I do believe that as much as this may correlate with white race among females and more moderate family income, I'd also bet it correlates with lower educational levels--but I did not see that broken down.

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe Coochie's

wand holds more promise than????

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

3. This married white woman didn't vote for the Cooch

[polichick]

6. Same here!

[Politicub]

4. Heard that on Ed Shultz

Would be interesting to research that group and what about Cuccinelli got them to vote for him.

I don't get it though.

Ed was also saying how the Obama coalition was largely responsible for the dem win in VA. As a proud member of the Obama coalition, it feels good to be reminded that we have electoral power nationally, if not in every state.

[kelliekat44]

5. I think it was white women in the rural areas who voted that way. nt

[LiberalFighter]

8. I would agree with that.

It probably applies across the spectrum of voters. In metro areas they will tend to vote one way while those in rural areas differently. IMO this will help us more and more as there is less rural for folks to stay isolated from others.

[SharonAnn]

7. This is very puzzling to me.

[DFW]

9. Yes, it's a fact. Some Virginia white women did vote for Cuccinelli

Both of them were interviewed by some of the local papers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Ha-ha. 54% of them, in the exit poll

Which seems to show his extremist views on abortion don't put off as many white women as I'd expect.

[DFW]

11. Scarily high, in fact

I spent a lot of time in Northern Virginia growing up, and the affluent big modern Washington Suburbs are a relatively recent phenomenon. When I was little, places like Bailey's Crossroads were little more than prominent intersections, and there was a small airfied with single-engine planes lazily taking off and landing as if there was nothing else in the sky. All that is gone now, and the whole area is fancy high end condos, malls and regional or world HQs of high tech and global firms. But the mentality of the rural area it used to be is far from having been eradicated, and much of the rest of the state is as backward in its thinking as it was 100 years ago.

[CTyankee]

13. If they were Republican, yes and I suspect the vast majority of these white women for

Cooch were white. So a republican votes for a republican...

[marlakay]

12. A lot of people working at pentagon

Live in Virginia. I bet ether women working there or their wives could be some of them